
The work to preserve the entire public catalog is underway. “Archive Team considers the SoundCloud service in danger and, as it hosts a lot of original content, finds it important to prepare to save it selectively (a full grab would be too big and would raise concerns of mass copyright infringement).” Confirming the Reddit post, Archive Team calculates that the streaming platform’s public tracks total 855GB. Using their virtual archiving app, ArchiveTeam Warrior, the collective group has started preserving SoundCloud’s archives. Volunteer collective group Archive Team announced their plan to perform a complete back-up. The Reddit post comes amidst large-scale plans to preserve SoundCloud’s entire catalog. How exactly did makemakemakemake download everything so fast? The user hinted at using Google’s cloud computing services. “ It’d be quicker to download everything from yourself. Makemakemakemake invited other users to download from SoundCloud directly.

Does the user have any plans to create a mirrored version of the platform? Probably not.
